Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 97

He lay at night at the first place that came to hand, sometimes in the tall grass of the steppes, sometimes beneath a fence. "

Who acts: man, first place · What happens: lie, come · To what, where: first place, hand

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, first place), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 night	case
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 place	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 place	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 place	amod
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 place	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 hand	case
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grass	punct
14	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 grass	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 grass	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 grass	det
17	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grass	amod
18	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 steppes	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 steppes	det
21	steppes	steppe	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 grass	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fence	punct
23	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	26 fence	advmod
24	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	26 fence	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fence	det
26	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	parataxis
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 fence	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 fence	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	man			the first place	night	in the tall grass of the steppes	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at place=Location
2	come	past	the first place			hand			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hand=Initial_Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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